How to Use open world in a Sentence

open world

noun
  • That’s not to say there isn’t majesty in this open world.
    Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2024
  • However, one area where too much isn’t enough is in the game’s open world exploration.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024
  • In the open world, players can discover citizens in need of help.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Capcom’s cult classic action-RPG aims to take you back to its fantasy open world this spring.
    PCMAG, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Initially, traversing the open world on foot might seemed daunting due to its size and Cloud’s somewhat slow running speed.
    George Yang, PCMAG, 7 Feb. 2024
  • This vast, resource-rich country of just over three million people in the heart of Eurasia still clings to a vision of the more open world that existed for about 30 years after the end of the Cold War.
    Tuvshinzaya Gantulga, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The game’s lavish open world is reminiscent of Elden Ring, the fantasy action role-playing game that took the industry by storm in 2022.
    Lewis Gordon, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Games take place in a large open world, usually modeled after a real-life location, and players can steal cars, evade the police and commit countless types of crime.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 4 Dec. 2023
  • In addition to the performance mode, the update adds things stealth takedowns, more enemies in the open world, some changes to controller settings, improvements to screen narration, and a lot more.
    Jay Peters, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Today, the open world economy, which has bolstered global economic growth, is under threat.
    Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2023
  • One other factor that plays heavily into the success of the game’s open world is lifted directed from the original: incredible minigames.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Its open world was meant to be populated by believable, virtual dinosaurs.
    Patrick House, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Dune: Awakening will be an open world survival, massively multiplayer online game.
    The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2024
  • For decades before Trump’s election in 2016, the United States pursued a strategy of hardheaded internationalism, employing its power on behalf of a relatively cooperative, open world order.
    Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2021

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